[Introduced January 18, 2012; referred to the Committee on
Economic Development; then to the Committee on Finance; and then
to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact article 10, chapter 64 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the
Development Office to promulgate a legislative rule relating
to the use of coalbed methane severance tax proceeds.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article 10, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on the
fourteenth day of July, two thousand eleven, authorized under the
authority of section twenty-a, article thirteen-a, chapter eleven,
of this code, modified by the Development Office to meet the
objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and
refiled in the State Register on the sixteenth day of December, two
thousand eleven, relating to the Development Office (use of coalbed
methane severance tax proceeds, 145 CSR 13), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Development
Office to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Use of
Coalbed Methane Severance Tax Proceeds.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.